New Delhi: The election of Samrat Chaudhary as the Bharatiya Janata Party Legislature Party chief in Bihar on Wednesday has created quite a buzz in political circles as this virtually projects him as the face of the party in the state.

On Thursday, he joined the Nitish Kumar Cabinet as a deputy chief minister, the other deputy being Vijay Kumar Sinha, also from the BJP.

There are also questions over the party’s decisions on Chaudhary since he was also a minister in the Rabri Devi government, a fact that flew in the face of the BJP’s ‘jungle raj’ salvos at the Rashtriya Janata Dal. Show Full Article

Multiple BJP leaders in Delhi and Patna who ThePrint spoke to justified the retention of Chaudhary and Sinha as deputy CMs, maintaining that the party has focused on ‘continuity’ and experie

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